About Sonya Tien
Principal
Corporate / Entertainment & Sports / Intellectual Property / Litigation / Personal Injury / Real Estate
Phone: (888) 988-6613
E-mail: sonya@gwz.bcd.temporary.site
Sonya Tien is the Principal of Tien Law Firm. Sonya has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a “Rising Star” and was featured on the cover of North Carolina Super Lawyers for Solo Success. Sonya received her B.S.B.A. from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, and her J.D., with recognition as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, from Columbia Law School. Prior to founding the law firm, Sonya worked at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP in New York where her practice focused on commercial litigation, class actions, and white collar defense and investigations.
- Columbia Law School (J.D.), Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School (B.S.B.A.), 17 Scholarships, Dean’s List
- New York
- California
- North Carolina
- U.S. Court of International Trade
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- Rising Stars, Super Lawyers, 2020-Present
- Goldman Sachs
- JPMorgan Chase
- Credit Suisse
- Barclays Capital
- CBRE
- Tishman Speyer
- Catalent Pharma Solutions
- Plaintiffs’ counsel for a multi-Plaintiff personal injury case, where she obtained 11 pre-trail settlements.
- Plaintiff’s counsel for a wrongful death case where she obtained a pre-litigation settlement.
- Plaintiffs’ counsel for catastrophic injuries in a commercial truck litigation in the U.S. District Court (E.D.N.C.) where she obtained multiple pre-trial settlements.
- Represented Viva, LLC, Grenelle Holdings, LLC, and R2 Ventures, LLC for commercial acquisitions.
- Serving on the M&A litigation team for JPMorgan Chase in a landmark $4.7B hostile takeover case in the Delaware Chancery Court.
- Serving on the litigation team for a pharmaceutical company’s M&A dispute.
- Serving on the defense litigation team for Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital for a securities class action litigation in U.S. District Court (S.D.N.Y.).
- Serving on the defense litigation team for Credit Suisse regarding mortgage-backed securities litigation.
- Serving on the white-collar defense team for a leading investment bank for an investigation by the DOJ.
- Serving on the defense trial team for CBRE and Tishman Speyer for commercial real estate litigations in the Supreme Court of New York.
- Represented Plaintiffs on the litigation team that obtained a summary judgment landmark victory in a pharmaceutical suit against the FDA and DHHS in U.S. District Court (E.D.N.Y.).
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, 2010, 2011-2013
- United States District Court, Northern District of New York, Chambers of The Honorable Magistrate George H. Lowe, 2009
- Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, 2007
- SEC Cooperation Update: 2012 Year-End Review,
Wall Street Lawyer, 2013 - Recent Developments in the SEC Cooperation Initiative,
Practising Law Institute, Annual Securities Institute, 2012 - White Collar Criminal Defense and Securities Enforcement Memo,
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, 2011-2013 - Disclosure Requirements Regarding a Wells Notice, Fried,
Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, 2012 - How to Draft an Employment Agreement,
Fried, Frank, Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, 2013
- American Bar Association, Business Section
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, Business, Litigation, Entertainment & Intellectual Property Section
- National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- Tenth Judicial District
- Sports Lawyers Association
- North Carolina Advocates for Justice
- North Carolina Bar Association, 2012-2013, 2022, Real Property Section
- New York State Bar Association, 2012-2013
- New York County Lawyers Association, 2012-2013
- AI Applications in Marketing and Finance,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - AI Strategy and Governance,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - AI for Non-Data Scientists,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions: Advanced Topics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions: Foundations,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Alternative Dispute Resolution, North Carolina State University
- American Government: Constitutional Foundations, HarvardX
- Application of AI, InsurTech, and Real Estate Technology, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
- Blockchain Business Models, Duke University
- Comparative Health Systems, University of Pennsylvania
- Copyright Law, University of Pennsylvania
- Copyright in Multimedia, Duke University, Emory, and
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Copyright Law in the Music Business, Berklee College of Music
- Cryptocurrency and Blockchain: An Introduction to Digital Currencies, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
- Cyber Attack Countermeasures,
New York University, Tandon School of Engineering - Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Infrastructure, Duke University
- Employment Contracts, University of Pennsylvania
- Energy and Environment, Dartmouth College
- Entrepreneurship 4: Financing and Profitability,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - ESG Impact: Investor Perspective,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - ESG Risks and Opportunities,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - ESG and Climate Change,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - ESG and Social Activism,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Federal Taxation I: Individuals, Employees, and Sole Proprietors, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Finance of Mergers and Acquisitions: Designing an M&A Deal,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Finance of Mergers and Acquisitions: Valuation and Pricing,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Financial Markets, Yale University
- Financial Statements, SEC Filings and Ratio Analysis,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Fintech: Foundations & Applications of Financial Technology Specialization, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
- FinTech: Foundations, Payments, and Regulations,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - FinTech Law & Policy Duke University
- Fundamentals of Funding, with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, Goldman Sachs
- Fundamentals of Quantitative Modeling,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - HollywoodX: History, Industry, Art, University of Pennsylvania
- How to Make Money with Your Music Copyrights, Berklee
- International Law in Action: the Arbitration of International Disputes, Universiteit Leiden
- Introduction to Corporate Finance,
University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School - Introduction to Cyber Attacks,
New York University, Tandon School of Engineering - Introduction to Intellectual Property,
University of Pennsylvania - Investment Banking: M&A and Initial Public Offerings,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Lending, Crowdfunding, and Modern Investing, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
- Music Business Foundations, Berklee College of Music
- Portfolio and Risk Management, University of Geneva
- Privacy Law and Data, University of Pennsylvania
- Privacy Law and HIPAA, University of Pennsylvania
- Private Equity and Venture Capital, Università Bocconi
- Renewable Energy & Green Building Entrepreneurship,
Duke University - Sports Marketing, Northwestern University
- Taxation of Business Entities I: Corporations,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Taxation of Business Entities II: Pass-Through Entities,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Trademark Law, University of Pennsylvania
- Understanding Financial Markets, University of Geneva
- U.S. Health Law Fundamentals, University of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy, HarvardX
- U.S. Public Policy: Social, Economic, and Foreign Policies, HarvardX
- U.S. Taxation of International Transactions,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - What is Compliance? University of Pennsylvania
- What is Corruption: Anti-Corruption and Compliance,
University of Pennsylvania - What is Data Science?, IBM
- What is Social?, Northwestern University